Hi guys, have been a bit lazy the past few months cause I restricted myself on just reading those interesting threads in this forum and letting them inspire me for new projects.
Time to give something back I think. So here is what I was designing a few time ago and finally managed to start the build....

The "Bipie" is designed for low wing loading and some nice and relaxed low speed flying, hence the bipe configuration. It will have rudder, elevaror and aileron control so I may be able to use it also as a moderate 3d trainer.

here come some pics of how I put everything together....
greetings
chara

Very COOL and FUN !!!!! One suggestion , the intersection of two lines at a sharp angle (bottom of fuselage aft of the canopy )gives worries to stress, and breakage ...a slight rounding of the intersection relieves such stresses, providing the plane doesn't break somewhere else ...hahahaa

I use two styrofoam pieces ("styrodur" to be more precize, that is the light blue stuff) of about 2cm of thickness and glue them along the fuselage. That increases stability of the overall construction and allows the use of two more struts to support the upper wing. These struts are reinforced with bamboo skewers on the leading edges and attach pretty nicely to the styrofoam. I wanted it to be rather solid in anticipation of some harder landings I produce on a regular basis.

chara,
Looking Good!
I know you are looking for "some nice and relaxed low speed flying"
Hope I am wrong again,But I bet you will have your hands full with this one.
Cool looking plane!
Please keep us posted!
windy city

chara,
Looking Good!
I know you are looking for "some nice and relaxed low speed flying"
Hope I am wrong again,But I bet you will have your hands full with this one.
Cool looking plane!
Please keep us posted!
windy city

Thanks windy city!
I can't wait to maiden it. I'll start with small surface deflections, forward CG and quite some expo to see how it behaves in the air. Later I'll go fo the "envelope expansion test flights"

The upper wing ailerons by the way are still fixed. If I find out that more roll power is needed for the crazier stuff, I'll connect them to the lower wing ailerons.

Here is another build-detail that might be of interest for some of you.

It is a technique that I use to connect surfaces (depron sheets) that are perpendicular to eachother (it also works with other than 90° angles).
Glueing together two surfaces in a 90° angle often gives not enough stability
because of the small contact surface.
I stabilize these kind of connections with integrated balsa or plywood reinforcements. I found out that CA works extremely good on wood. So I CA-glue together two balsa/plywood strips of about 40x6x1 mm to form a T-shape (the ca bond is ultra strong).
Then I cut a slit right through the depron surfaces that have to be connected and squeeze in the wooden T-reinforcement. Of course you should apply some "uhupor" on the T-piece before you squeeze it in and also on all the rest of the contact surfaces. "seal" the slits with clear tape.

This method increases the strenght of perpendicular bonds signifficantly. It works great and is easy to do!

I hope the following pics explain it better than I can do with my poor english...